New groundbreaking technique merging computer-generated animation with hand-drawn, Oscar-nominated short.

Hat tip to Theo.

An animated film made by Irina Litmanovich as a SHAR studio school Director’s course project in 2005.

“A mournful celebration of the fact that life’s problems never end.”

Hat tip to Viktorija Ruškulienė.

Hat tip to Sarah Hoyt.

Former Special Forces officers mock the presidential leadership style in this cartoon.

Hat tip to Theo.

From a Bulgarian source, an animated history of Europe from the Early Middle Ages showing how countries and empires came and went and boundaries changed. Look at what happened to Lithuania!

I heard this 1910 Minstrel Show hit performed by DJ Davis and the Brassy Knoll in the course of the final episode of the second season of Treme.

I wanted to hear it again, but the Treme version is not being offered in MP3. YouTube, at least, offered a decent version, which served as background for a fairly surreal Warner Brothers cartoon.

A quaint, folkloristic animated history of Lithuania, from the Pre-Cambrian to today.

It probably won’t make much sense to the non-Lithuanians out there. The armored wolf you see at one point is a symbol of Lithuania. It seems that Grand Duke Gedymin took a nap while hunting and dreamed of an iron wolf. As the result of his dream, he founded the city of Vilnius. The transition from the Battle of Grunwald (1410) to the Third Partition (1795) is rather quick, but that is the linguistic nationalist perspective for you.

The depiction of the communists as crabs is, I think, some kind of linguistic pun.

Hat tip to Viktorija Ruškulienė.

Incredibly detailed miniature animated portrait of the capital of Ukraine.

Hat tip to Walter Olson.

It’s vital that public schools teach Evolution. Otherwise, children might grow up unable to follow the plotline of this video.

Hat tip to Colossal Art & Design.

Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.

Karen will like this one!

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Hat tip to NavySealDad.